Re: Locale +vim woes

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 06/10/04

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:57:36 -0400

    On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 03:07:12 -0400, d0x
      <dan@no.spam> wrote:
    >
    > not really sure where to post this one. but here goes.
    >
    > I am having trouble writing german letters in vi. I read somewhere that i
    > can get the 'ess-zett' by pressing CNTRL+K then type ss. This only works
    > with a fake locale though.
    >
    > for example. If I do this before entering vi, i can create the extra
    > letters.
    > # export LANG=BLAH
    > # locale
    > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
    > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
    > directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
    > directory LANG=BLAH
    > LC_CTYPE="BLAH"
    > LC_NUMERIC="BLAH"
    > LC_TIME="BLAH"
    > LC_COLLATE="BLAH"
    > LC_MONETARY="BLAH"
    > LC_MESSAGES="BLAH"
    > LC_PAPER="BLAH"
    > LC_NAME="BLAH"
    > LC_ADDRESS="BLAH"
    > LC_TELEPHONE="BLAH"
    > LC_MEASUREMENT="BLAH"
    > LC_IDENTIFICATION="BLAH"
    > LC_ALL=
    >
    What happens if you export LANG=C or LANG=POSIX?

    > BUT, if i do it like this
    > # export LANG=en_US-UTF-8
    > it will not let me do fancy letters in vi.
    > # export LANG=de_DE-UTF-8
    > when I open vi, everything is in germam like i expected. But, I still
    > can't create those extra letters.
    export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 

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